ABSTRACT

NEW OBJECTS AND DISAPPEARING COMPUTING

The use of IoT devices is increasingly pervasive. Their adoption is common in several areas, ranging from wearable health-care devices to tiny sensors that monitor the level of water poisoning.

The scenarios where IoT networks work are continuously evolving, both in terms of computational requirements and in security complexity. Thus, it is of paramount importance to define hardware and software upgrading mechanisms that are as simple as possible.

Devices must be built in order to ease extension in memory, computation capabilities and performance in general. The same applies for software components, for which a reliable updating/patching mechanism has to be clearly defined (and standardized).